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Eric Koester
Entrepreneur
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Oct 13, 2026
EP824: Eric Koester - Stop Asking For Permission
16:28
16:36

Eric KoesterGUEST
I mean, and so part of what I think, you know, so one of the things that I spent a lot of time on in the research area that I focus on is really this idea of ambition.

Eric KoesterGUEST
And so ambition gets a funny, it gets a dirty word, right? Like, oh, you're ambitious.
10 MINS LATER
Mentors In The Age Of AI
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Cal FussmanHOST
So how did you get from that experience to where you are now, where you basically were studying thousands of people who were... 30 under 30, they're people who are going someplace and figured out what's the best way for someone with ambition or even maybe somebody like me who I never felt like I had ambition to just rise to get to the place that you want to go.

Eric KoesterGUEST
Yeah, I mean, the first thing I think it's important to know is I think the word ambition sort of has, in some ways, like there's a little bit of a stigma around it, right? Like, I think people think about ambition is like, I'm willing to step on anyone to get where I need to go, or, you know, I'm very, like, it kind of has this stigma around a little bit.

Eric KoesterGUEST
I think most humans out there, they want something that they don't have currently, and so they're striving in some way, shape, or form.
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